Car-door guard



(No Model.)

H. T. KRIDER.

OAR DOOIR'GUARD.

No. 590,399. I Patented Sept. 21,1897.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENRY 'TYRONE KRIDER, OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS.

CAR-DOOR GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,399, dated September 21, 1897. Application filed October 17, 1896- Serial No 609,226. (No modelzl useful Car-Door Guard, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car-door guards; and the object in view is to provide a simple,

novel, and efficient guard or strip for closing or sealing the joint adjacent to the rear edge of a sliding car-door when closed, the aim being to prevent the admission of moisture and cinders and sparks from the engine between the door and the car-body and to the interior of the car.

tures and details of construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, j illustrated in the drawings, and finally point- 1 ed out in the claims hereto appended.

and a sliding door, showing the improved Fig. 2 is a horizontal guard applied thereto. section through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one end of the improved guard, showing also the contiguous rear edge of the door.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a portion of a car-body, and 2 a sliding door mounted on suitable tracks or hangers in the ordinary manner. The improved guard will be described as applicable to an ordinary sliding door mounted upon the outside of the car-body, but it will be appar-- cut that by changing the shape of the guard the latter may be used in connection with a flush-seating door and that the invention is otherwise susceptible of changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction, which may accordingly be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

The guard 3 may be either of metal or wood and is in the form of a vertical strip, which extends longitudinally of the rear edge of the door, being connected thereto by one, two,

or more hinges at. The guard 3 is preferably of the same thickness as the door, and the hinges 4 are secured to the outer surfaces of the door and guard, so that said parts are connected at their outer corners, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. These hinges 4c are doubleacting-z'. e., the two leaves of each hinge have adjacent to or surrounding their pintle an actuating-spring 5, which operates when the guard is folded inward to press the same against the car-body or when the guard is moved outward to hold the same in that position.

6 designates a handhold by means of which the guard 3 may be drawn out of contact with 1 the car-bod y. The invention consists in certain novel feaat '7 in order to allow the guard to be rocked inward at its swinging edge farther than the T inner surface of the door for the purpose of In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a car-body.

causing such swinging edge to closely engage the car-body should the door be not in close contact therewith.

The guard 3 is provided upon the inner surface, near its swinging edge, with a flexible strip of rubber or other suitable flexible materials This strip (indicated at 8) is folded upon itself upon a central longitudinal line and the edges thereof brought together and tacked to the inner surface of the guard 2. The folded or looped portion of the strip 8 lies adjacent to or projects slightly beyond the swinging edge of the guard and when pressed against the car-body tightly and effectually seals the joint between the car door and body. A similar strip 9 of flexible ma .terial is secured to the guard 3 or to the door at the hinged corners or edges'of said parts, thereby establishing a sealed joint at this point also. The inner surface of the guard 3 is provided with a longitudinal cove or concavity 10 to prevent the freezing of the same to the oar-body.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection wit-h the drawings, it will be seen that I have provided'an improved hinged It is well known that the sliding doors of cars always warp or shrink when in service to such an extent that the door has a limited play laterally with respect to the car-body, and one of the objects of my invention is to connect the hinged strip to the d'oorin a manner which will secure a tight joint between the door and the car, without reference to the play that may take place between said door and car. To attain this object, I provide the edge of the door and the edge of the strip adjacent to said door with the bevels 7, and the strip is hinged at its outer edge to the corresponding face or edge of the door in a man nor to enable the beveled edge or face of the strip to abut against the corresponding face or edge of the door. Such construction enables the hinged strip to move inwardly beyond the plane of the inner face of the door, and thus the inner edge of the hinged strip and the flexible strip 8 attached thereto are adapted to bear firmly against the face of the car when the door is closed across the opening.

In my improvement the space or opening between the beveled faces of the strip and the edge of the door is closed by means of the flexible strip 9, but this flexible strip does not extend continuously across the beveled face of the hinged strip, thus avoiding interference with the proper action of the hinged strip when the dooris closed. The improved construction enables a tight joint to be ob-' tained between the hinged strip and the car, and also between the strip and the door to which it is hinged, thus effectively excluding cinders, rain, &c., from entering the car through the door thereof.

The springs 5 exert their tension to hold the guard in close contact with the car-body, but when it is desired to slide the door open the guard may be rocked outward with the aid of the handhold 6.

The guard is extremely simple and economical, is applicable to any sliding door,

and will effectually exclude moisture, cinders, and sparks.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. The combination with a car-door having its vertical edge beveled inwardly, of a guardstrip hinged to the outer edge of the door on a vertical axis and having its edge or face opposite to the edge of the door formed with a bevel to permit the outer swinging edge of the guard-strip to move inwardly beyond the plane of the inner surface of the door, and springs acting on the guard-strip to hold the same in either its operative or inoperative position, whereby the guard-strip is adapted to form a close joint between the door and the car-body irrespectiveof the lateral play which takes place between the car-body and the door, as set forth.

2. The combination with a car-door having its-vertical edge beveled inwardly, of a guardstrip hinged to the outer edge of the door on a vertical axis and having its inner edge beveled to act conjointly with the bevel on the door and permit the outer swinging edge of the guard-strip to move inwardly beyond the plane of the inner surface of the door, a flexible strip 8 attached to the inner edge of the guard-strip and adapted to bind against the car-body when the door is closed, another flexible strip 9 attached to the outer hinged edge of the guard-strip and closing the space between the beveled faces of the guard-strip and the door,and springs secured to the hinges and acting against the guard-strip to hold the latter at the limit of its movement in either direction, as and for the purposes described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY TYRONE KRIDER. \Vitnesses:

R. H. BUMPASS, E. C. RoYsE. 

